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Sai name meaning

“lord; saint”

Letters
3
Syllables
1
First letter
S
Origin
Sanskrit · Hindi
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♂♀ Unisex
Peak 2010s: 9.1%
of the boy top-10 total Peak 2010s: 9%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboygirl
1940s––
1950s––
1960s––
1970s––
1980s––
1990s––
2000s––
2010s9.1%9%

Indian Names: SMeaning faithSanskrit origin

Sai is a short name for boys and girls meaning 'lord' or 'saint'.

What does Sai mean?

Lord; saint

In Malay: tuan; orang suci

#Faith

Sources (3)

About the name Sai

Sai is a short name used for both boys and girls in the Malaysian Indian community. According to Wiktionary, Hindi sāī̃ (साँई, also written साई) means 'lord' or 'saint' and comes from Sanskrit svāmin; another source explains sai as a Persian word for a holy person. The name is associated with Sai Baba of Shirdi. According to JPN, in the 2010s the name was given to 70 baby boys and 49 baby girls.

Gender♂♀ Boys and girls
OriginSanskrit, Hindi, Persian
SyllablesSai
First letterIndian Names starting with S
Devanagari scriptसाई

Sai in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
Boy: 70 · 9.1% Girl: 49 · 9%
People registered with Sai as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Indian table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: साँई · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: साई · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. Wikipedia: Sai Baba of Shirdi · en.wikipedia.org · origin

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